BMC Medical Ethics

Papers
(The median citation count of BMC Medical Ethics is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A scoping review of human genetic resources management policies and databases in high- and middle-low-income countries133
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia130
What are the views of Quebec and Ontario citizens on the tiebreaker criteria for prioritizing access to adult critical care in the extreme context of a COVID-19 pandemic?53
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review50
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension47
Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study46
The ethics of simplification: balancing patient autonomy, comprehension, and accuracy in AI-generated radiology reports45
Community engagement conduct for genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the experiences and perspectives of key stakeholders in Uganda44
How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV44
Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study41
Perceptions on using surplus embryos for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease among the Swedish population: a qualitative study38
Participatory development of CURA, a clinical ethics support instrument for palliative care37
Increasing physician participation as subjects in scientific and quality improvement research35
“Everything has been tried and his heart can’t recover…”: A Descriptive Review of “Do Everything!” in the Archive of Ontario Consent and Capacity Board34
Behind the scenes of research ethics committee oversight: a qualitative research study with committee chairs in the Middle East and North Africa region34
Key ethical issues encountered during COVID-19 research: a thematic analysis of perspectives from South African research ethics committees34
A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives on the ethics of medically-delivered safer injection education for people who inject drugs34
Differing needs for Advance Care Planning in the Veterans Health Administration: use of latent class analysis to identify subgroups to enhance Advance Care Planning via Group Visits for veterans33
Uncertain futures and unsolicited findings in pediatric genomic sequencing: guidelines for return of results in cases of developmental delay30
Readability of health research informed consent forms: case of the National Health Research Ethics Committee in Tanzania29
Putting patients first: when home-based care staff prioritise loyalty to patients above the system and themselves. An ethnographic study29
Correction to: Mapping trust relationships in organ donation and transplantation: a conceptual model28
Being torn by inevitable moral dilemma: experiences of ICU nurses27
Medical staff’s sense of awareness of informed consent for adolescent cancer patients and the need for decision-making support practiced from the perspective of trauma-informed approach25
Ethical use of artificial intelligence to prevent sudden cardiac death: an interview study of patient perspectives24
Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement24
Promoting trans patient autonomy in surgical preparation for phalloplasty and metoidioplasty: results from a community-based cross-sectional survey and implications for preoperative assessments23
From chaos to symbiosis: exploring adaptive co-evolution strategies for generative AI and research integrity systems23
Governance frameworks for COVID-19 research ethics review and oversight in Latin America: an exploratory study22
Ethics education to support ethical competence learning in healthcare: an integrative systematic review22
How to deal with the criterion of severe mental distress for late termination of pregnancy? A scoping literature review and a content analysis of clinical ethics consultations22
The search for the principle of justice for infertile couples: characterization of the brazilian population and bioethical discussion21
Attitudes about withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician assisted suicide: a cross-sectional survey among the general public in Croatia21
The dual role dilemma of liver transplantation health care professionals21
Investigating ethical considerations in the communication network of married women undergone hysterectomy: instrumentation of a questionnaire21
The challenges of keeping clinicians unaware of their participation in a national, cluster-randomised, implementation trial20
Moral approval of xenotransplantation in Egypt: associations with religion, attitudes towards animals and demographic factors20
A qualitative focus group study on legal experts’ views regarding euthanasia requests based on an advance euthanasia directive19
Clinical ethics consultations: a scoping review of reported outcomes19
Family roles in informed consent from the perspective of young Chinese doctors: a questionnaire study19
The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions19
Physicians’ legal knowledge of informed consent and confidentiality. A cross-sectional study19
A quantitative study of nurses perception to advance directive in selected private and public secondary healthcare facilities in Ibadan, Nigeria18
Exploring knowledge and attitudes toward electronic informed consent among clinical trial participants in China: a cross-sectional study18
Descriptions of risks and benefits of HIV vaccine trials in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs): an integrative review18
Measuring moral distress in health professionals using the MMD-HP-SPA scale17
Should AI allocate livers for transplant? Public attitudes and ethical considerations17
Genetic/genomic testing: defining the parameters for ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI)16
Ethical concerns when recruiting children with cancer for research: Swedish healthcare professionals’ perceptions and experiences16
Ownership of individual-level health data, data sharing, and data governance16
Understanding drug exceptional access programs (DEAPs) in Canada, and their associated social and political issues16
Ethics rounds in the ambulance service: a qualitative evaluation16
Professional and academic profile of the Brazilian research ethics committees16
Differences between doctors of medicine and dental medicine in the perception of professionalism on social networking sites: the development of the e-professionalism assessment compatibility index (eP16
Examining study participants’ decision-making and ethics-related experiences in a dietary community randomized controlled trial in Malawi15
How to reveal disguised paternalism: version 2.015
Patient-centered empirical research on ethically relevant psychosocial and cultural aspects of cochlear, glaucoma and cardiovascular implants – a scoping review15
Operationalising a real-time research ethics approach: supporting ethical mindfulness in agriculture-nutrition-health research in Malawi15
Conceptualizing the impact of moral case deliberation: a multiple-case study in a health care institution for people with intellectual disabilities15
The genetic technologies questionnaire: lay judgments about genetic technologies align with ethical theory, are coherent, and predict behaviour15
Ethical considerations and concerns in the implementation of AI in pharmacy practice: a cross-sectional study14
Analysis of ethical considerations of COVID‑19 vaccination: lessons for future14
High-reward, high-risk technologies? An ethical and legal account of AI development in healthcare14
How prehospital emergency personnel manage ethical challenges: the importance of confidence, trust, and safety14
Ethical considerations for HIV remission clinical research involving participants diagnosed during acute HIV infection14
Biases in bioethics: a narrative review14
Age and grit in prioritising intensive care: - a mixed-methods approach of normative challenges14
Investigating impact of consulting midwives on maternal rights charter on perception of respectful maternity care and postpartum blues among postpartum women: a quasi-experimental study13
Cardiac organoids do not warrant additional moral scrutiny13
‘Guidance should have been there 15 years ago’ research stakeholders’ perspectives on ancillary care in the global south: a case study of Malawi13
Ethical challenges in the algorithmic era: a systematic rapid review of risk insights and governance pathways for nursing predictive analytics and early warning systems13
Exploring health and disease concepts in healthcare practice: an empirical philosophy of medicine study13
Performance of IRBs in China: a survey on IRB employees and researchers’ experiences and perceptions13
Informed consent in genetic and genomic studies in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of bioethical issues13
Willingness toward post-mortem body donation to science at a Mexican university: an exploratory survey12
The voice of the profession: how the ethical demand is professionally refracted in the work of general practitioners12
Third-party refusal of medical treatment – a critical analysis of case report from Islamic ethical perspectives12
Moral distress and positive experiences of ICU staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned12
Managing community engagement in research in Uganda: insights from practices in HIV/AIDS research12
Public attitudes towards genomic data sharing: results from a provincial online survey in Canada11
Ethical challenges in conducting research in low and middle income setting during public health emergencies: a qualitative evidence of a COVID-19 pandemic: the experience of Iran11
Exploring the foundations and influences of nurses’moral courage: a scoping review11
Physicians’ moral distinctions between medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study11
Encompassing trust in medical AI from the perspective of medical students: a quantitative comparative study11
Participant and researcher understandings of research responsibilities in malawi: a comparative analysis11
Increasing efficiency and well-being? a systematic review of the empirical claims of the double-benefit argument in socially assistive devices11
Questionable research practices of medical and dental faculty in Pakistan – a confession11
Willingness to develop an advance directive: perspectives of older persons at a national referral hospital in Uganda10
Surgical consent, perception of the patients who underwent a surgical operation in the Kurdistan region, Iraq10
Developing a digital informed consent app: opportunities and challenges of a new format to inform and obtain consent in public health research10
Experience and perspectives of end-of-life care discussion and physician orders for life-sustaining treatment of Korea (POLST-K): a cross-sectional study10
Emergency separation of conjoined twins in a tertiary hospital in Indonesia: three case reports10
The public impact of academic and print media portrayals of TMS: shining a spotlight on discrepancies in the literature10
How does patient-centered hospital culture affect clinical physicians’ medical professional attitudes and behaviours in Chinese public hospitals: a cross-sectional study?10
“She was finally mine”: the moral experience of families in the context of trisomy 13 and 18– a scoping review with thematic analysis10
Development and validation of an instrument to measure pediatric nurses' adherence to ethical codes9
Risks and benefits of engaging youth living with HIV in research: perspectives from Kenyan Youth, caregivers, and subject matter experts9
Planning ahead for research participation: survey of public and professional stakeholders’ views about the acceptability and feasibility of advance research planning9
Advancing equity in healthcare systems: understanding implicit bias and infant mortality9
Participant recall and understandings of information on biobanking and future genomic research: experiences from a multi-disease community-based health screening and biobank platform in rural South Af9
Travelling to die: views, attitudes and end-of-life preferences of Israelis considering receiving aid-in-dying in Switzerland9
Ethical competence: the cornerstone of care in the cardiac operating room, a phenomenological study9
Healthcare practitioners as accomplices: a qualitative study of gender affirmation in a context of ambiguous regulation in Indonesia9
Ethical decision-making climate, moral distress, and intention to leave among ICU professionals in a tertiary academic hospital center9
How is physicians’ implicit prejudice against the obese and mentally ill moderated by specialty and experience?9
Conscientious objection and barriers to abortion within a specific regional context - an expert interview study9
Ethical dilemmas in prioritizing patients for scarce radiotherapy resources9
To donate or not to donate? Future healthcare professionals’ opinions on biobanking of human biological material for research purposes8
Informed consent in psychotherapy: a survey on attitudes among psychotherapists in Switzerland8
Public attitudes toward the research use and storage of residual dried blood spots from newborn screening in China8
A bioethical perspective on the meanings behind a wish to hasten death: a meta-ethnographic review8
A comparative ethical analysis of the Egyptian clinical research law8
Physician-reported characteristics, representations, and ethical justifications of shared decision-making practices in the care of paediatric patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness8
A review of clinical ethics consultations in a regional healthcare system over a two-year timeframe8
Exploring barriers and ethical challenges to medical data sharing: perspectives from Chinese researchers8
Exploring defensive medicine: examples, underlying and contextual factors, and potential strategies - a qualitative study8
Correction: Public trust of AI in healthcare in South Africa: results of a survey8
Disparity in attitudes regarding assisted dying among physicians and the general public in Japan8
Ethical issues in unprofessional behavior of residents who dispute dismissal: ten year analysis of case law in hospital-based specialties8
Preferences for life-sustaining treatments in advance decisions: a cross-sectional survey of Taiwanese general public8
Prevalence of defensive medicine behaviors, associated risk factors and its mitigation strategies among physicians in Gaza Strip, palestine: a mixed method study8
Children’s voices on their values and moral dilemmas when being cared and treated for cancer– a qualitative interview study8
Should healthcare professionals include aspects of environmental sustainability in clinical decision-making? A systematic review of reasons8
Japan should initiate the discussion on voluntary assisted dying legislation now8
Between knowledge and hope—the relationship between the patient and the doctor8
Medical assistance in dying for people living with mental disorders: a qualitative thematic review8
Project DECIDE, part 1: increasing the amount of valid advance directives in people with Alzheimer’s disease by offering advance care planning—a prospective double-arm intervention study7
Oncologists’ perspective on advance directives, a French national prospective cross-sectional survey – the ADORE study7
The impact of moral injury on healthcare workers’ career calling: exploring authentic self-expression, ethical leadership, and self-compassion7
A genetic researcher’s devil’s dilemma: Warn relatives about their genetic risk or respect confidentiality agreements with research participants?7
Moral conflicts from the justice and care perspectives of japanese nurses: a qualitative content analysis7
“I haven’t had to bare my soul but now I kind of have to”: describing how voluntary assisted dying conscientious objectors anticipated approaching conversations with patients in Victoria, Australia7
Correction: Evaluating the understanding of the ethical and moral challenges of Big Data and AI among Jordanian medical students, physicians in training, and senior practitioners: a cross-sectional st7
Exploring how biobanks communicate the possibility of commercial access and its associated benefits and risks in participant documents7
Evaluating trustworthiness in AI-Based diabetic retinopathy screening: addressing transparency, consent, and privacy challenges7
Adolescent and parental proxy online record access: analysis of the empirical evidence based on four bioethical principles7
Public funding for mitochondrial donation: An Australian public deliberation7
Exploration of clinical ethics consultation in Uganda: a case study of Uganda Cancer Institute7
Where the public health principles meet the individual: a framework for the ethics of compulsory outpatient treatment in psychiatry7
Exploring the consent process among pregnant and breastfeeding women taking part in a maternal vaccine clinical trial in Kampala, Uganda: a qualitative study7
Making complex decisions in uncertain times: experiences of Dutch GPs as gatekeepers regarding hospital referrals during COVID-19—a qualitative study7
A literature review of non-financial conflicts of interest in healthcare research and publication7
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and ethical design: public perceptions of trustworthiness of an AI-based decision-support tool in the context of intrapartum care7
Junior medical doctors’ decision making when using advance care directives to guide treatment for people with dementia: a cross-sectional vignette study7
A qualitative interview study to determine barriers and facilitators of implementing automated decision support tools for genomic data access7
Ethical implications of AI-driven clinical decision support systems on healthcare resource allocation: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ perspectives7
Would you consider donating your left-over embryos to treat Parkinson’s disease? Interviews with individuals that underwent IVF in Sweden7
Future healthcare providers and professionalism on social media: a cross-sectional study6
Situational vulnerability within mental healthcare – a qualitative analysis of ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Exploring bias risks in artificial intelligence and targeted medicines manufacturing6
Psychometric properties of instruments measuring ethical climate among healthcare professionals in care settings pre-pandemic: a systematic review6
Family satisfaction with the end-of-life discussions and resuscitation orders for patients with severe COVID-19: a multicenter study in Saudi Arabia6
It takes a pirate to know one: ethical hackers for healthcare cybersecurity6
Dealing with sexual boundary violation in mental healthcare institutions by government policies: the case of Flanders, Belgium6
Consent to organ offers from public health service “Increased Risk” donors decreases time to transplant and waitlist mortality6
Evaluating cognitive bias in clinical ethics supports: a scoping review6
Research, education, ethics consultation: evaluating a Bioethics Unit in an Oncological Research Hospital6
Between hope and future planning: the dementia journey for care partners through the lens of relational autonomy6
The research relationship: participant perspectives on consent in biobanking6
“Data makes the story come to life:” understanding the ethical and legal implications of Big Data research involving ethnic minority healthcare workers in the United Kingdom—a qualitative study6
Which features of patients are morally relevant in ventilator triage? A survey of the UK public6
Ethical considerations during Mpox Outbreak: a scoping review6
Patients accept therapy using embryonic stem cells for Parkinson’s disease: a discrete choice experiment6
Guardians and research staff experiences and views about the consent process in hospital-based paediatric research studies in urban Malawi: A qualitative study6
Patient-centred care and patient autonomy: doctors’ views in Chinese hospitals6
Diversity in decentralized clinical trials: prioritizing inclusion of underrepresented groups6
Design and psychometric properties of a tool to assess Adherence to the Code of Ethics in Midwifery6
Attitudes on euthanasia among medical students and doctors in Sri Lanka: a cross sectional study6
“Age independent, but person dependent”: a Swiss interview-based study on the meaning of good parenthood at an advanced parental age6
Ethical and practical considerations for cell and gene therapy toward an HIV cure: findings from a qualitative in-depth interview study in the United States6
Injection‑induced sciatic nerve injuries in Turkey: a public health and patient safety analysis of Supreme Court decisions6
Views and attitudes about the offer of NIPT: a qualitative study of UK healthcare professionals6
Patient priorities for fulfilling the principle of respect in research: findings from a modified Delphi study6
Mapping ethical issues encompassing end-of-life care for persons experiencing severe and persistent mental illness: a qualitative study6
The ethical requirement of explainability for AI-DSS in healthcare: a systematic review of reasons6
Bioethics training needs assessment for HIV research in vulnerable populations: a survey of trainees at college of health sciences, Makerere university6
End-of-life care in Moroccan ICUs: ethical challenges, practices, and perspectives of intensivists6
Construction and validation of a predictive model for the acceptance of kidney xenotransplantation among patients awaiting kidney transplantation: a cross-sectional study from China5
What outcomes of moral case deliberations are perceived important for healthcare professionals to handle moral challenges? A national cross-sectional study in paediatric oncology5
Strengthening ethical oversight in genomics and biobanking: a retrospective analysis of research practices in Zimbabwe5
Patients acceptance and comprehension to written and verbal consent (PAC–VC)5
Integrating ethics in AI development: a qualitative study5
Ethical self-efficacy among healthcare professionals caring for people with dementia: a brief pre- and post-report on the CARE intervention5
Perception of the ethical climate among hospital employees in a public healthcare system: a cross-sectional survey at the University Hospital of Split, Croatia5
Should Artificial Intelligence be used to support clinical ethical decision-making? A systematic review of reasons5
AI-driven decision support systems and epistemic reliance: a qualitative study on obstetricians’ and midwives’ perspectives on integrating AI-driven CTG into clinical decision making5
Artificial Intelligence to support ethical decision-making for incapacitated patients: a survey among German anesthesiologists and internists5
Fragmented understanding: exploring the practice and meaning of informed consent in clinical trials in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam5
“That’s just Future Medicine” - a qualitative study on users’ experiences of symptom checker apps5
Citizen attitudes to non-treatment decision making: a Norwegian survey5
Supporting patient decision-making in non-invasive prenatal testing: a comparative study of professional values and practices in England and France5
Ethics, orthodoxies and defensive practice: a cross-sectional survey of nurse’s decision-making surrounding CPR in deceased inpatients without Do Not Resuscitate orders5
Surrogate decision-making for people with congenital or acquired incapacity of judgement in the absence of known preferences: a scoping review5
Shared care planning in people with cognitive disorders and dementia: a survey among patients and caregivers in Italy5
Researching the future: scenarios to explore the future of human genome editing5
Why did not all studies conducted during Darfur’s armed conflict obtain ethics approval? Insights from a qualitative study5
Institutional review boards in Saudi Arabia: the first survey-based report on their functions and operations5
Respect, equality, and recognition in practice: a qualitative analysis of nurses’ workplace dignity in China5
Disclosure of true medical information: the case of Bangladesh5
Does brain-computer interface-based mind reading threaten mental privacy? ethical reflections from interviews with Chinese experts5
The high-priority ethical issues of advanced paternal age: perspectives from a panel of experts in the fields of men reproduction and family building5
A scoping review of ethics review processes during public health emergencies in Africa5
Communication of patients’ and family members’ ethical concerns to their healthcare providers5
Impact of the life-sustaining treatment decision act on organ donation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in South Korea: a multi-centre retrospective study5
Operationalization of assent for research participation in pre-adolescent children: a scoping review5
Informed or misinformed consent and use of modified texture diets in dysphagia5
The missing voices in the conscientious objection debate: British service users’ experiences of conscientious objection to abortion5
A case study of Muslims’ perspectives of expanded terminal sedation:addressing the elephant in the room5
Medical ethics in childbirth: a structural equation modeling approach in south of Iran5
Moral disengagement in critical care nurses: a conventional content analysis5
Psychometric testing of the Swedish version of the measure of moral distress for healthcare professionals (MMD-HP)5
REPRESENT: REPresentativeness of RESearch data obtained through the ‘General Informed ConsENT’5
Biomedical ethical analysis of patients’ perspectives on posthumous reproduction in a gynecology and obstetrics clinic4
Project DECIDE, part II: decision-making places for people with dementia in Alzheimer’s disease: supporting advance decision-making by improving person-environment fit4
Speculation fit for a king? Medical announcements from the British royal family and the recurring ethical complexities of personal privacy and public commentary from physicians4
Trust and digital privacy in healthcare: a cross-sectional descriptive study of trust and attitudes towards uses of electronic health data among the general public in Sweden4
Extremely premature birth bioethical decision-making supported by dialogics and pragmatism4
Ethics framework for citizen science and public and patient participation in research4
The view of Hong Kong parents on secondary use of dried blood spots in newborn screening program4
Assent, parental consent and reconsent for health research in Africa: thematic analysis of national guidelines and lessons from the SickleInAfrica registry4
Assessment of decision-making autonomy in chronic pain patients: a pilot study4
Exploring patients’ rights awareness and implementations amongst hospitalized patients in Northern Palestine: insights from a local perspective4
Capacity of community advisory boards for effective engagement in clinical research: a mixed methods study4
Junior Medical Officers’ knowledge of advance care directives and substitute decision making for people without decision making capacity: a cross sectional survey4
Decision-making and ethical dilemmas experienced by hospital physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic4
Students’ attitudes toward euthanasia and abortion: a cross-cultural study in three Mediterranean countries4
Views on sharing mental health data for research purposes: qualitative analysis of interviews with people with mental illness4
Ethics, design, and implementation criteria of digital assistive technologies for people with dementia from a multiple stakeholder perspective: a qualitative study4
General practitioner residents and patients end-of life: involvement and consequences4
Correction: Technology solutionism in paediatric intensive care: clinicians’ perspectives of bioethical considerations4
“No, it is not a breach of my oath because it is beyond my control; I use the policies that are in place.” Ethical challenges faced by healthcare workers in the provision of healthcare to cross-border4
Evaluation of the surgical informed consent for elective and emergency surgeries in obstetrics and gynaecology in Saudi Arabia4
Urban people’s preferences for life-sustaining treatment or artificial nutrition and hydration in advance decisions4
Medical students’ and residents’ views on euthanasia4
“It is difficult to be absolutely sure one way or the other.” – a mixed method study on Finnish physicians’ views on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide4
Justification for requiring disclosure of diagnoses and prognoses to dying patients in saudi medical settings: a Maqasid Al-Shariah-based Islamic bioethics approach4
Developing the CARE intervention to enhance ethical self-efficacy in dementia care through the use of literary texts4
“I am in favour of organ donation, but I feel you should opt-in”—qualitative analysis of the #options 2020 survey free-text responses from NHS staff toward opt-out organ donation legislation in Englan4
Radiation in an emergency situation: attempting to respect the patient’s beliefs as reported by a minor4
Researchers experience and views on participants’ comprehension of informed consent in clinical trials in Malawi: a descriptive qualitative study4
Effect of healthcare professionals’ perceived occupational stigma on organizational citizenship behavior: a moral cleansing perspective4
Regulating professional ethics in a context of technological change4
A QALY is [still] a QALY is [still] a QALY?4
Ethics support for ethics support: the development of the Confidentiality Compass for dealing with moral challenges concerning (breaching) confidentiality in moral case deliberation4
Exploring the ethical decision-making experience of caregivers of end stage cancer patients in Iran: a phenomenological study4
Decision-making ethics in regards to life-sustaining interventions: when physicians refer to what other patients decide4
Patients’ views on using human embryonic stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease: an interview study4
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the ethics in medical research among Moroccan interns and resident physicians4
Facing a request for assisted death - views of Finnish physicians, a mixed method study4
Nurses’ experience of nasogastric tube feeding under restraint for Anorexia Nervosa in a psychiatric hospital4
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